Katherine has been on a huge balloon kick the past several days — blowing them like crazy, playing with them, etc. It alternates between being really cute and really annoying (as she enjoys the sound of deflating balloons, too).<\/p>\n
It’s actually good for her, though, building up jaw muscles and tongue and stuff like that — stuff she needs for her speech therapy. <\/p>\n
Margie informed me this morning that Katherine had tied off her first balloon. Which is something I’ve never done before — so chalk that up as the first of many, many things I’m sure she’ll exceed me at. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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